AkzoNobel announced plans to acquire BASF's Industrial Coatings business for approximately $530 million (€475 million). The planned acquisition is expected to be completed in the second half of 2016.

Paint and coatings specialist AkzoNobel has confirmed it is in talks to purchase rival BASF's industrial coatings business.

versatile and sturdy lightweight board will be presented by BASF, the world's leading chemical company, and Swiss Krono Group, a leading European wood-based material manufacturer, at Ligna 2013.

BASF employee volunteers joined Morris Habitat for Humanity to build homes for three families in Madison, NJ, incorporating sustainable building practices during construction.

LUDWISGHAFEN, GERMANY - BASF is investing $30 million in the U.S technology firm Renmatix Inc., which has patterned a process to cost effectively produce industrial sugar from lignocellulosic biomass including wood, cane trash and straw.

BASF is participating with $30 million through BASF Biorenewable Beteiligungs GmbH & Co. KG in the American technology firm Renmatix Inc. Renmatix has developed the Plantrose platform, a patented process that can produce industrial sugar from lignocellulosic biomass (wood, cane trash or straw).

LUDWIGSHAFEN, GERMANY and CAORSO, ITALY -- BASF, a global chemical company, and SAIB, a timber manufacturer, presented their joint project to develop a lightweight particleboard at SICAM.

At SICAM, which will run in Pordenone, Italy, between October 20 and 23, 2010, BASF, the world’s leading chemical company, and SAIB, one of Italy’s biggest derived timber manufacturers, will present their joint project to develop a lightweight particle board. The new wood-based material, based on the Kaurit ® Light system, will be at least 20% lighter than conventional particle board. The product, which is being presented at SAIB as "Light", will be launched in 2011.